Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | by saying restrict them to three you get the best three they can think of |
| 32 | Put nothing to one side — God will put to one side for you ! ’ |
| 33 | If you put them to shallow they come up |
| 34 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 35 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 36 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 37 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 38 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 39 | Why not , as Lord Donaldson seems to be suggesting , appoint them to Rural Boundaries Tribunals , a sort of bucolic Acas , with powers to sort out neighbours who have temporarily taken leave of their common sense . |
| 40 | Furthermore , there are particular reasons which impel me to that conclusion . |
| 41 | Next we restrict ourselves to harmonic ( optical ) fields E(t) , with angular frequency w : Assuming , for definiteness , that the atom is initially in state 1 , and expressing its subsequent evolution as then standard application of time-dependent perturbation theory gives , to lowest order Clearly the largest excitation will occur in cases where hw is resonant with an atomic energy spacing { maths } . |
| 42 | ‘ As soon as I realised Princess Diana was in trouble I put everything to one side , ’ she says . |
| 43 | A median of two stones were found ( range one to six ) within the duct with a median size of 1.5 cm ( range 0.5–2.5 ) . |
| 44 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 45 | YAHOO , a length and a half runner-up to Desert Orchid in last season 's Cheltenham Gold Cup , is being heavily backed to take his revenge in Boxing Day 's King George VI Chase at Kempton , and Coral 's yesterday cut him to 6-1 from 10-1 after laying him to lose £40,000 . |
| 46 | If you show it to other people it could form part of their records which they may later be obliged to disclose . |
| 47 | When you put it to Sole that his approach to captaincy is more intellectual than gung-ho he laughs : ‘ Well , I am not a Finlay Calder by any means . |
| 48 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 49 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 50 | On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 51 | But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ? |
| 52 | I put it to this hundred , would you spend two thousand pounds on having a tummy tuck if your tummy needing tucking ? , |
| 53 | I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat . |
| 54 | Relay it to General Command . ’ |
| 55 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 56 | He guessed that the mikes were near enough to pick up his discussion with Stevie and relay it to several million viewers . |
| 57 | It attracts those who seek it to large structured organizations and into programmed , structured jobs . |
| 58 | We cut it to four and those four are still our major selling products and the foundation of our business . |
| 59 | And she 'd let her long hair fall around her face and shake it to some interior rhythm . |
| 60 | And you 've got to say , that , we 'll restrict this , right , restrict it to all the negative numbers . |